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IIL Description of some New and Bonariali per of Aristolochia from Western 
Tropical Africa. By Jos. D. Hook£k, M.D., F.R.S., V.P.L.S., &c. 
(Plate XIV.) 
Read February 16th, 1865. 
1, ARISTOLOCHIA GOLDIEANA, Hook. f.; glaberrima, foliis ovato- vel triangulari-cordatis 
basi profunde exsculptis acuminatis, floribus maximis, perianthii refracti utriculo 
elongato subclavato limbo infundibuliformi campanulato ore ampliato truncato 
obtuse trilobo lobis caudato-acuminatis, staminibus ad 24, columns lobis ad 12 
bicruribus. 
Hab. In Africæ tropicæ occidentalis sylvis ad Eluga a Rev. Episcopo Sierræ Leone detecta (Barter, 
n. 3427). In insula Fernando Po, Mann, n. 391. In sylvis ad ostium fluminis Old Calabar, Rev. W. 
C. Thomson. | 
Frutex scandens, caule 20-pedali, ramulis gracilibus teretibus. Folia longe graciliter petiolata, 6-8-poll. 
longa, 5-6 lata, basi auriculato-cordata sinu profundo lato fere clauso auriculis rotundatis, acumi- 
nata, integerrima vel siccitate crenulata, glaberrima, membranacea, subtus pallida; nervis primariis 
7-11, arcuatis, a nervo tenui basim cordatam folii marginante orientibus, gracilibus ; petiolo 6-polli- 
cari. Stipule 0. Perianthium medio refractum ; pars inferior vel utriculus in ovario sessilis, 8 poll. 
longa, 23-3 lata, subcylindrica, obtuse 6-costata, apice clavato incurvo, dorso arcuata, subito in limbum 
perianthii contracta, basi angustata intrusa, intus pilis articulatis mollibus aucta; perianthii pars 
superior 12 poll. longa, infundibuliformi-campanulata, multicostata, sensim in limbum symme- 
tricum expansa; limbus subinflatus crasse costatus, inter costas lacunosus, ore hiante truncato, 
obscure trilobo, lobis subito acuminato-caudatis; fauce intus cum lamina cireumambiente pendula 
aucta. Columna subsessilis, 14 poll. longa, 2 poll. diametro, intus cava, cavitate infundibuliformi. 
Anthere anguste lineares, contiguæ, 1 poll. longæ, columnz adherentes. Stigmata erecta, apicibus 
bifidis incurvis. 
Plate XIV. fig. 1, flower ; 2, branch and leaves ; 3, longitudinal section of the throat of the perianth, show- 
ing the position and form of the pendulous curtain; 5, hair from cavity of the utricle; 6, vertical 
section of the base of the utricle, showing the column; 7, vertical section of the column; 8, upper 
part of anthers and stigma; figs. 3, 5, 7, and 8, all magnified. 
For the specimen, preserved in alcohol, from which the drawing of this magnificent 
plant has been made, I am indebted to the Rev. W. C. Thomson, by whom it was found 
growing in forests near the mouth of the Old Calabar river in 1863, and to whom we are 
indebted for many interesting plants collected in the same region. At Mr. Thomson's 
request, it is named after his fellow-labourer, the Rev. Hugh Goldie, of the United Pres- 
byterian Missionary Society. | 
The most remarkable characters in the structure of 4. Goldieana are,—1. the number 
of stamens, which, in all the 160 species hitherto described, are either six or very rarely 
five, but here amount to about twenty-four, whilst in two other West-African species, 
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